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NASA-funded research has created a material that could self-heal in seconds. Two layers of solid polymer sandwich a gel that with an ingredient that solidifies on contact with air (i.e. when one or both of the outer layers is damaged). This differs from other approaches that rely on a mostly-liquid …

Once famously combative, press conferences have morphed into carefully choreographed, entirely predictable affairs<p>When I heard that Donald Trump had booted Univision’s Jorge Ramos from a press conference on Tuesday in Dubuque, Iowa, I couldn’t wait to watch the indignant response of the other …

HBR STAFF<p>Even in my relatively short foray into office life, I notice that few people bring a pen and notebook to meetings. I’ve been told that over the years, the spiral notebooks and pens once prevalent during weekly meetings have been replaced with laptops and slim, touch-screen tablets.<p>I …

Burned out? Can't get it all done? The problem might be in your head.<p>You wake up with it in the morning and go to bed thinking about it at night: an ever-crushing load of emails, meetings, conference calls, and tasks that needed to get done yesterday. Family time means reading sales reports in the …

<i>This post originally appeared on the Crew blog.</i><p>Whether you want to learn a new language, learn to cook, take up a musical instrument, or just get more out of the books you read, it helps to know how your brain learns.<p>While everyone learns slightly differently, we do have similarities in the way our …

A recent paper from a rightwing advocacy group makes clear just how desperate the 1 percent is to get its way<p>Last week, a paper was published by the right wing advocacy group American Action Forum (AAF). It was more or less a speculative hit piece on the Dodd-Frank financial reform, and a small …

Former WWE wrestler and Minnesota governor tells Salon about the next war — and his stealth plan to win in ’16<p>For former WWE star and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, the year 2014 has been busy indeed. In the 10 months or so since he last spoke with Salon, the political iconoclast and host of …

White people in this country are afraid — and it’s the key to understanding race relations and our foreign policy<p>"[T]here’s never an excuse for violence," President Obama said after a grand jury in Missouri decided not to charge Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Mike Brown. And yet, earlier …

Since looting all of us for a generous bailout, you’d have thought they’d all lie low. Here’s what they did instead<p>They just can’t help themselves. Like the drunk that ruins family holiday gatherings year after year, the big banks, once they are caught in yet another episode of their serial …

Distractions and interruptions happen throughout the day–it’s an inevitable part of life–but being able to quickly refocus and get back on task is the key to a productive workday.<p>In 2011, when Jack Dorsey was running Twitter and Square full-time–at the time he worked about 8 hours for each company …

But changing habits isn't a matter of "powering through" them. Like a muscle, your willpower gets exhausted throughout a day.<p>As Charles Duhigg details in the now-in-paperback "The Power of Habit," advances in social science suggest that behavioral change isn't a result of focusing on the behavior …

Robert Thomson writes to competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia calling for action over Google's dominance<p>Google: Murdoch is accusing us of eating his hamster<p>Read the full letter here<p>The chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has written to the European commission calling Google a …

The U.S. military has been corrupted by its addiction to airstrikes. Here’s why that’s so dangerous<p>When you do something again and again, placing great faith in it, investing enormous amounts of money in it, only to see indifferent or even negative results, you wouldn’t be entirely surprised if a …

The theological and cultural roots of a damaging attitude in the Christian community<p>Persecution has an allure for many evangelicals. In the Bible, Christians are promised by Saint Paul that they will suffer for Christ, if they love Him (Second Timothy 3:12). But especially in contemporary America, …

Four years after Apple introduced its popular tablet, many districts are switching to laptops.<p>For an entire school year Hillsborough, New Jersey, educators undertook an experiment, asking: Is the iPad really the best device for interactive learning?<p>It’s a question that has been on many minds since …

Researchers say architectural design cues make people want to gamble, perhaps more than digital environments do.<p>The first time I ever stepped foot inside a poker club I could feel my gut tighten as I walked through the door. Just the thought of losing even a small fraction of my meager savings was …

Financial-aid restrictions are woefully out of keeping with the way most students attend school today.<p>The golden image of college students walking brick-paved paths to attend small classes in ivy-covered buildings hasn't matched the reality of higher education for a while now. Nearly half of U.S. …

Net neutrality is dying, Uber is waging a war on regulations, and Amazon grows stronger by the day<p>Halfway through 2014, and the influence of technology and Silicon Valley on culture, politics and the economy is arguably bigger than ever -- and certainly more hotly debated. Here are Salon's choices …

He reinvented acting, and Hollywood hasn’t recovered.<p>Hollywood extracted entirely the wrong moral from the story of Marlon Brando. Working when the studio-contract system crumbled in the 1950s, he quickly leveraged the power he had accrued from his theatrical performances into a series of …